Sandy and Lonnie Phillips have pushed for more legal exposure for gun makers and sellers following shootings. They lost their daughter, Jessi Ghawi, in the theater shooting in Aurora 11 years ago. via robharristv
AURORA, Colo. — Eleven years ago, Jessi Ghawi walked into the Century 16 theater in Aurora. A budding sports reporter and a “jolt of lightning,” she had gone to the theater to catch the midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” film.
Ghawi was one of 12 killed and 70 more injured when a man entered the theater, detonated smoke bombs and began shooting into the crowd. The shooter emptied four weapons full of ammunition, according to police. “It was wrong,” Lonnie said. “It just took the rights away from all kinds of survivors of violence, and disallowed their day in court.”
When the bill was passed, Sandy and Lonnie Phillips were in the chamber, and welled up when they heard what the law had been named: The Jessi Redfiled Ghawi Act for Gun Violence Victims, or Jessi’s Law for short. “It affects the way we operate. It affects the future of the business, as well,” Antillon said. “This means that anytime something happens — like the Aurora shooting, these unfortunate events — a gun store could potentially be held liable for selling the gun to a particular person. So, that makes the punishment towards the gun store, and not the criminal itself, which is insane.”
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